The current project I’m working on is a book/novel titled Matchdotcom for Dummies (and Retired Bunnies) by Suzanne Nielsen AKA Pearl Mercer/Quixote_isms. The premise is to focus on 30 days in the life of a middle-aged woman revisiting the idea of dating. It will consist of five chapters (110 pages)—
1. The Genesis and Evolution of […]
Anna DiBella’s Review of East of the River
Author: Suzanne Nielsen
Published: January, 2006
So’ham Books, Haryana, India
Website: http://www.sohambooks.tk
For a poet who is open and straightforward, yet private, as she herself tells us in “Bound, ‘The ties that bind/the binds that tie,’” her poetry becomes a medium for being. In East of the River, Suzanne Nielsen shares her […]
Endorsements for Cool Dead People Essays
If I did not know Suzanne Nielsen, my life would have been very dull. Suzanne and I were founding staff writers for Double Dare Press magazine. Her twist on the standard obituary, Cool Dead People became the most popular page on our Web site. It is a blend of memoir […]
Endorsement for ITYSK
Suzanne Nielsen speaks to me from the America that I do not work for; the America that doesn’t intimidate me. Her poems, barely grammatical, are disturbing collages of monotony and irony from a country that has suddenly realized things have slipped out of control. Take, “3.14159″, for example, where the day begins with […]
Bending Spoons: A Leap of Faith
Synopsis
Spoon River was my introduction to Edgar Lee Masters as a poet. I picked up a first edition copy at Half Price Books for a dollar several years ago and I still revisit it almost daily. Bending Spoons: A Leap of Faith, started as a New Year’s resolution, an homage […]
Endorsements for The Moon Behind the 8 Ball & Other Stories
Suzanne Nielsen’s The Moon Behind the 8 Ball & Other Stories offers up entrée upon entrée of what we need most: the scarred, both spiritually and physically; the arsonist, real and should-be; sane human beings puzzled by the irrational actions and inactions of misguided Republican-voting […]